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what three-lobed, stout, projecting at the top, and depressed at 

 the base ; protuberauce, large, and frequently terminal. 



This tree has a striking effect, and is easily distinguished at a 

 distance by its beautiful bright grass-green foliage and clustered 

 cones, which are in threes or fours, and of a bright brown colour. 

 It is found growing near the village of San Mateo, in Mexico, at 

 an elevation of 8,000 feet. ( ? Pin us patula.) 



No. 131. PiNUS PROTUBERANS, Roezl, the Protuberant Mexican 



Pine. 



(Syn. Pinus angulata E-oezl.) 



(Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, very slender, curved, and ten inches long ; 

 sheaths, nearly one inch long. Cones, beautifully curved 

 towards the point, in clusters of three or four together, and 

 sharp-pointed, six inches long, and from two to two inches and 

 a half in diameter. Scales, irregularly shaped, more than one 

 inch broad, and half an inch long, rounded at the top, and 

 smooth j protuberance, very elevated, with different faces or 

 centres set straight. 



A tree upwards of 100 feet high, with its branches a little 

 raised or elevated at the ends, and curved leaves ; a very hand- 

 some kind,found at an elevated place on the Contreras,in Mexico, 

 at from 9,000 to 10,000 feet of elevation. (? Quite new.) 



No. 132. Pinus Regeliana, Roezl, the Royal Pine. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, slender, and from ten to eleven inches long ; 

 sheaths, from three quarters of an inch to one inch long, and 

 silky. Cones, five inches long, and one inch and three quarters 

 broad, and quite straight. Scales, elevated in the middle, trans- 

 versely keeled, three quarters of an inch broad, and half an inch 

 long ; protuberance, depressed, with a slight mucro in the 

 centre. 



This splendid tree is unequalled by any other in Mexico, with 

 its long tufted branches, commencing within a yard of the 



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